THE WEATHER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 14, 29 December 1911, Page 4

THE WEATHER.

The oldest inhabitant sadly shakes his head and tolls us that never has such a wet season been experienced in Taranaki as we are now having, and lie may well bo believed. In past years even if a too plentiful rainfall had bean given us, the middle of De-cember-has nearly always seen an improvement, and lino weather set in until late in March. But the phenomenal wetness does not appear to be our portion only, for all parts of the Dominion are bewailing the weather.

“Givis,” in the “Otago Daily Times,” writing on Christmas Eve, says that among circumstances unpropitiour., tiic nearest and dreariest for a month past lias been the all-enveloping uncscapablo weather, and that Dunedin had experienced a longer succession of wot days than Noah’s before the Flood. Our friends in the south, however, take consolation in the weather comparisons made by the Meteorological Department. Here is the record for a year, in order of merit: —New Plymouth, 1226 days, Auckland, 17G; Wellington, 150; Dunedin, 146. And hero is the average for the last JO years:—New Plymouth, 228; Auckland, 175; Wellington, 167; Dunedin, 162. The probabilities are that Taranaki will put up a new record in tins line if matters don’t mend, and the promise of such a happy ending of the deluge is not vet evident.